Jeb Bush speaks at a town hall event in New Hampshire Wednesday.Reuters

Look — there’s another pol racing around the country looking to fight income inequality: Not Mayor de Blasio — Jeb Bush.

And unlike Hizzoner’s ideas, Bush’s plan might actually work.

“The opportunity gap is the defining issue of our time,” Bush said this week. “It’s very hard for people to go from the bottom rungs of the economy to the top or even the middle. This should alarm you. It has alarmed me.”

To create “the opportunity for every American to rise,” he wants growth. Bush aims to end the pathetic Obama-era economic-growth rate of just 2 percent a year and trigger a “sustained” level of 4 percent.

How? Not the “progressive” ploy of raising taxes on the rich, but by cutting rates — and simplifying the tax code. Forget today’s seven personal-income-tax brackets, topping out at 39.6 percent rate; Bush wants only three, the highest at just 28 percent. Some 15 million lower-income Americans would no longer incur taxes.

He’d also close corporate-tax loopholes while cutting the rate. This would stop the flight to lower-tax countries and spark new investment here — creating more jobs and more opportunity for those at the bottom.
And he’d kill the hated marriage penalty and Alternative Minimum Tax, while boosting the Earned Income Tax Credit, which helps the working poor.

He even agrees with de Blasio on one huge point: scrapping the “carried interest” tax benefit on fees paid to hedge-fund managers.

By focusing on growth, Bush would create opportunities to bring more folks into the middle class. That’s a far better way to attack “inequality” than shifting money from the rich to the poor, de Blasio-style.